Did anyone ever get the feeling that the royalty of humanity were really right proper monsters? Ones that justified it as 'well it'd be worse if we didn't rule all of humanity'? I mean they use indoctrination techniques intended to have their military be willing to do anything including acts of genocide on a planetary scale to ensure NO ONE lives free of their rule.

ArtfulCodger

09:27:03 PM Aug 12th 2012

The writers discussed this once. Part of the back story of the novel that got cut before publishing was a discussion about just how bad it had got before the monarchy installed order. So yes, it really was worse when they didn't rule all of humanity.

Nightmask

07:50:32 PM Sep 21st 2012

Sounds like an effort to handwave away the evils of the Empire as 'Utopia justifies the means', as it's hard to imagine how you can do worse than burn an entire planet's population to ash because you thought there MIGHT be rebellion.

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